i need to kno what they are...and what was the importance to the Vikings
2006-11-01 10:30:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
In the film Beowulf and Grendel that was released on dvd in Canada earlier this year, they have a mead hall. It's a building that functions as a community meeting hall, tavern, and place to sleep all in one. The importance would have been a place to socialize for various purposes that was protected from the elements.
2006-11-02 14:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was like the mead-hall in Beowulf: a community gathering place to eat, drink, be merry, and sleep it off. I guess it was like a community center or town hall, just a lot more animated (last city council meeting I went to could have used some mead!)
I don't know that it was 100% rowdy--it might not have been a good place to bring your kids, what with the drunken Viking hordes, but I think they wanted a place to relax and unwind after a long trip of burning and raping and pillaging. Valhalla was a mead hall with no hangovers and no mead-puking. All the Viking warriors would gather and swap war stories until the end of time. So they must have loved their mead-halls, to make heaven a mead-hall.
2006-11-01 11:38:00 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
before going a viking they loved to drink and get themselves wound up for the trip, after they came home they gathered in the mead hall and drank and whored and had lots of time to tell everyone else about the trip and split up the booty, ok they liked to drink, the highest form of heaven was valhalla where they would be with lovely maidens in the eternal meadhall and drink and have contests of strength eternally.
2006-11-01 10:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mead is fermented honey wine;perhaps, the mead hall was another name for a drinking and eating feast and the hall it was celebrated in.
2006-11-01 10:55:34 · answer #4 · answered by kalusz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drinking mead (beer), eating huge meals, bragging about conquests.
2016-03-28 03:56:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically a bar where vikings (and their wenches) would get together and throw down some serious mind-altering beverages. Then as now, they would tell stories, sing, arm-wrestle, and fight. Things haven't changed much, have they?
2006-11-01 11:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tom I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋